Stadium Subsidies; Cyclist Hate; and How to Anger a Taxi Driver: Urban Insights From Around The Web.
While the Urban Edge strives to provide readers with daily news and insights about urban policy, we’re also voracious readers of city news ourselves. As part of a new weekly feature, senior editor Ryan Holeywell and the staff of the Kinder Institute highlight the week’s most interesting articles from around the web about urban policy and city life.
Does Urban Planning Have a Race Problem?
As Ferguson’s one-year anniversary approaches, one urban planner says her profession needs to consider how it thinks about race.
Director's Address - October 2015
A message from the director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research for the month of October.
Charts of the Week: Across the Sun Belt, Cyclists Are Mostly Poor
In many places, people don’t bike to make a statement. They bike because it’s what they can afford.
In Texas, Two Dramatically Different Transit Philosophies Emerge
Dallas and Houston are embracing light rail. But their approaches share little in common.
Take a Glimpse At The Eerie Interior of Houston's Astrodome
The Kinder Institute takes a peek inside Houston's Astrodome, which hasn't been used on a regular basis since 1999.
How Immigrant Activist Groups in Houston Fight for a More Equal City
Research notes the ways both documented and undocumented immigrants work together on healthcare, labor and criminal justice issues.
While the Urban Edge strives to provide readers with daily news and insights about urban policy, we’re also voracious readers of city news ourselves. As part of a new weekly feature, senior editor Ryan Holeywell and the staff of the Kinder Institute highlight the week’s most interesting articles from around the web about urban policy and city life.
Here Are The Nine Steps for Making a Better City
Shelley Poticha, director of NRDC's urban solutions program, offers her rules for what it takes to make cities green, pleasant and walkable.
I Was a Teacher. I’m Worried My Daughter Will Follow in My Footsteps.
I fear she – like many other teachers – will be scapegoated as the reason public education is failing.
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